You can't become emotionally attached to the work that you create because you are there to solve a problem for a theoretical client.

That's how our designs were structured.

So I saw a lot of my classmates get critiqued,

break down, crying.

And for me, I just felt nothing a lot of the times

because I was creating work that I was passionate about,

but I couldn't get attached to it. The Okay, so Chris, for the full disclosure, everybody that's listening to this podcast, I know Chris Franklin in real life and I've met him and we've hung out in New York and we have hung out in LA. He's a genuine dude and here's the thing and the reason why I invited him on today's podcast is that he works in the video production space and he's been sharing the progress he's making and it's astounding. You've been growing by leaps and bounds. So if you're in the video production space if you are thinking about hiring someone on either side of the fence

I think this episode is going to be one that you're going to want to stick around for. So, Chris, for people who don't know who you are, can you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit of a story?

Absolutely. So my name is Chris Franklin. I'm a video, I run a video production agency here in South Mississippi. I am kind of a born and raised South Mississippi boy like I kind of got into cameras by wanting to do photos and making these quirky YouTube videos.

They're terrible.

But somehow it developed into me doing senior portraits

and somehow it developed into me doing weddings. ultimately I was like hey I can actually nail down the video production side of thing and go like focus up in that one area and actually find a lot of passion in that one spot.

So I found myself doing the production side of video and hopefully doing it well enough to try to scale and grow and honestly it's still

a bit surreal still a bit adjustment that needs to be had but um yeah kind of

out here living life in the heat of Mississippi.

Okay, a couple different things.

What did you did you go to college?

Did you and what did you study or did you go straight into like trying to figure out how to be an artist?

Yes, so coming through high school because this is important.

Going through high school, I did Photoshop a lot.

I ended up being the staff the head branch staff

whatever it is in the yearbook I did that and then I went to pursue what I thought

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